Tongue-Tie & Palate Evaluation Procedures
Tongue-Tie & Palate Evaluation: Essential Cranial Procedures for the Chiropractic Practice
Tongue-tie (ankyloglossia) and palatal distortions can have a profound impact on cranial development, airway function, latching, speech, posture, and neurological integration—especially in infants and young children.
In this targeted online course, you’ll learn how to accurately evaluate and address tongue-tie and palate imbalances using safe, gentle, and effective cranial techniques. You’ll gain insight into how oral and cranial restrictions affect the entire body—and how to support optimal outcomes through chiropractic care.
This training empowers chiropractors to play a critical role in identifying dysfunctions early, guiding parents through care options, and offering structural corrections that often reduce the need for more invasive procedures.
What You’ll Learn
- Detailed evaluation protocols for tongue, lip, and buccal ties
- Visual and manual assessment strategies for high, narrow, or distorted palates
- Step-by-step cranial techniques to support palate expansion and normalize oral function
- How to recognize compensatory patterns affecting the jaw, cranium, and spine
- Guidance for collaboration with other birth and oral health professionals
Resources Provided
- Video class modules
- Evaluation & technique presentations
- Practical demonstrations
- Calls to action (CTAs)
- Complete PDF workbooks
- Full transcriptions of video classes
- Email access to Dr. Rosen & Dr. Watson
Why Take This Course?
- Early identification and correction of tongue-tie and palate issues can prevent long-term problems with feeding, breathing, speech, and neurological development
- Chiropractors are uniquely positioned to identify structural dysfunctions that are often overlooked in traditional screenings
- Hands-on protocols you can implement immediately to support both infants and children in your practice
Who Is This Course For?
Chiropractors who want to:
- Elevate their pediatric care with advanced cranial and oral assessment tools
- Provide non-invasive support to families navigating tethered oral tissue diagnoses
- Integrate functional cranial corrections into a neurologically-based chiropractic practice
Tongue-tie and palate distortions don’t just affect the mouth—they influence the entire cranial and spinal system. This course gives you the tools to assess and address these patterns confidently, improving outcomes for your youngest patients and their families.
Course Contents
12 Modules | 12 CTAs
Class 1 – Cranial Anatomy and Landmarks
Class 2 – Cranial Bone Motion
Class 3 – The Dural Meningeal System and CSF
Class 4 – Anatomy and Movement of the Palate
Class 5 – Evaluation of the Palate
Class 6 – Dural Meningeal Evaluation of the Palate
Class 7 – Palate Distortions and Cranial Bone Relationships
Class 8 – Corrections for Palate Distortions
Class 9 – Sphenobasilar Mechanics and Evaluation
Class 10 – Palate Corrections and Fruit Jar Techniques
Class 11 – Tongue-Tie
Class 12 – Palate Contacts for Intra-Oral Corrections and the Sphenomaxillary Suture
Meet the Instructors
As early as first quarter in chiropractic school they were attracted to each other’s commitment to chiropractic and the pursuit of excellence. Their combined 80 years of personal and clinical and teaching experience, in delivering the chiropractic adjustment is unparalleled in the chiropractic profession. Their international outreach through teaching, writing and lecturing has been a driving force in their personal and professional careers since their first seminar taught together as students, in 1979.
Their years of experience have taught them what works and what does not work to create a successful practice and lifestyle. The more competent and comprehensive your expertise you will find that more patients will seek your services and your practice will grow exponentially.
Feedback From Our Students
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Dr. Brooke AE Lee
I love the breakdown for the protocols for each of the three majors. Temporal, Frontal and Sphenoid. That was my favorite part. I also love the Kinesiology testing for the occlusion, half open and full open. The last thing that I truly appreciate within this class is the way that it just improves and adds on to the rest of the information that I have learned from your classes.
I think that this class will make me more focused on how I treat TMJ issues in adults and with my protocols for infants. I have done the intraoral work for years and this class is the gold standard for treatment. I am thankful for this information.
I have used this quite a few times in many of my adult patients and more specifically in one of the full-term/full size twins that I have been working with in the last couple of months.
Yes, as always! I recommend your classes to everyone that I can! Infinity!
I just love learning, specifically from you two! I have found a renewed sense of wanting to absorb and master everything that you guys teach! Thank you.
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Dr. Jeanne Sandheinrich
1. This class taught how to determine which side cranial adjustment needs to be done first. 2. This class connected a lot of pieces of SOT- ascending/descending patterns, cranials, and visual analysis- in relation to a TMJ patient. 3. Many people think of TMJ patients as older children and adults, but there was so much information to apply to the infants as well.
I will be able to more thoroughly evaluate a baby or child that is showing TMJ problems.
I love using visual analysis to determine which cranial pattern a baby is showing. On a newborn I also evaluated the 9 palate areas for suck and gag. I also used the sphenomaxillary release on the baby and she had so much tension release.
Yes, I would recommend this course to other chiropractors because no matter if you are a pediatric focused doctor or someone who sees mainly adults, the information in the course can help with corrections involving the cranium and oral function.
Thank you!
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Dr. Jacobe Holman
Firstly, the importance of craniofacial growth and development on TMJ function. Second, the kinematic relationship between the TMJ and posture/subluxation is fascinating. Third, the ability to manage yet another important aspect of holistic subluxation-based care is invaluable.
I love that I/we have learned so much already, and then a whole new layer of understanding and connection within the system is incredible.
A patient had chronic low back/sacral/pelvic stiffness and ache. Also had considerable issues with a jaw that popped on both sides. The patient had been under corrective care for just over a year with little to no change in orthopedic X-ray measurements or mobility. Although the ache was a little better. After 3 weeks of no change (when I assumed care), I stopped adjusting the pelvis/sacrum, focusing solely on UC and Cranial indicators. Started with Intra-oral release of occiput bilateral, then a Right temporal external. After 3 weeks, 6 visits, lower back was adjustable and no longer tight. Jaw stopped popping as bad.
I would highly recommend this course to others. Whether you intend to market to the TMJ population or not, this program, yet again provides a clearer view of how subluxation influences the human condition.
This program was amazing. I really appreciated the demonstrations at the end. I also LOVED learning new material, a new language to use when classifying this very specific aspect of cranial work and sublimation management in general.
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